{"id":43930,"date":"2011-02-01T22:12:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43930"},"modified":"2011-02-01T22:12:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:12:24","slug":"drag-racing-ashley-force-hood-talks-racing-and-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=43930","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing &#8211; Ashley Force Hood Talks Racing and Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Force Hood altered the NHRA Funny Car landscape last week with the revelation that impending motherhood will sideline her for at least the 2011 drag racing season.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to overhaul father\/team-owner John Force as reigning world champion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or battling\u00c2\u00a0the expanded four-car lineup at Don Schumacher Racing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Force Hood and husband Dan will be preparing for the birth of their first child.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We felt that if God wanted it to happen, it would happen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Force Hood, who broke the news to the crew of her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang and the media during separate news conferences. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dan and I know there is always a risk at the beginning of a pregnancy, so we waited as long as possible to say anything to make sure everything was all right and there were no problems.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racintoday.com\/archives\/24302\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Force Hood altered the NHRA Funny Car landscape last week with the revelation that impending motherhood will sideline her for at least the 2011 drag racing season. Instead of trying to overhaul father\/team-owner John Force as reigning world champion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or battling\u00c2\u00a0the expanded four-car lineup at Don Schumacher Racing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Force Hood and husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43931,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43930\/revisions\/43931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}